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Definition of Lisbon

1. Noun. Capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic.

Definition of Lisbon

1. n. A sweet, light-colored species of wine, produced in the province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in Portugal.

Definition of Lisbon

1. Proper noun. The capital of Portugal and of the district of Lisbon. ¹

2. Proper noun. A district of Portugal. ¹

3. Proper noun. A sweet, light-coloured wine from Portugal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Lisbon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Other bishops are mentioned up to the year 716 when Lisbon passed into the hands of the Moors and the see remained vacant till 1147. ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"Dom Miguel, at the time of the capture of Lisbon, was with the army before Oporto. The command of this army had been taken over, on July 13, ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1868)
"The following communications were read :— "A Comparison of the Kew and Lisbon Magnetic Curves during the Magnetic Storm of February 20-25, 1866. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The English Government earnestly pressed him to return to Lisbon, ... Directly after the war, in 1817, the first Arising took place in Lisbon in the form of ..."

5. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"But the evidence is conclusive that Drake was in friendly agreement with his two colleagues, and that he promised to take the fleet off Lisbon in order to ..."

6. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"In the twelfth century, Lisbon, and great part of Portugal and Spain, ... He demanded that the storming of the castle of Lisbon, situated on a considerable ..."

7. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"WHEN Sir John Moore marched from Lisbon, the regency, established by Sir Hew Dalrymple, nominally governed that country ; but the weak characters of the ..."

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